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Black Hat SEO: 19 Short-Sighted SEO Tactics that Will Kill Your Rankings

seo.co

Irrelevant keywords. + Keyword stuffing. + Duplicate content. + Black hat tactics waste time and money while putting your entire site at risk of being de-indexed and/or blacklisted entirely. Worst case scenario, your entire domain name could get de-indexed or even blacklisted from Google and other search engines.

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Position Zero Is Dead; Long Live Position Zero

Moz

At a glance, you can see which keywords displayed a featured snippet (the scissor icon), owned that featured snippet (highlighted in blue), as well as your organic ranking for those keywords. We also debated whether duplicating data in rankings reports added value for customers or just created confusion.

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SEO for Small Businesses

Sharpspring

Historically, SEO meant ranking high enough for the correct keywords. If someone searched for “bike store Gainesville,” search engines would deliver the results they deemed most reliable — i.e. that other sites were linking to them and the content contained that combination of keywords. It’s a bit more complicated now.

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How to Survive the Next Google Algorithm Update

seo.co

Regardless of the Google updates, make it a habit to check your traffic and your position in your relevant keywords. You can view visitor location, bounce rate , traffic sources, your top keywords, and the pages with the most number of engagements. Make sure to focus on your organic traffic when tracking your keywords.

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Why Isn’t My Website Ranking? 9 Reasons You’re NOT Ranking on Google

seo.co

If your website isn’t indexed – or is improperly indexed, for that matter – you won’t appear in search results for any terms or keywords. If you’ve already indexed your site, perhaps you accidently de-indexed it by mistake? Your Target Keywords Are Too Competitive. So this is the first issue to work through.

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What is Negative SEO?

SmartBug Media

Today, ranking first page in Google Search is a mighty feat that requires thoughtful keyword research, content development, social strategy, campaign measurement, and on-site optimization. De-indexing The Site: Changing your robots.txt file from the server to remove you from search.

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2023 Complete Guide to International SEO

Brightedge

Local keyword and content optimization. You can also use the BrightEdge platform to research your international competitors by entering their domain in the "Content Research" tab and filtering keyword rankings by country / language. This will show you all the keywords and pages that they rank for.

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